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...Disney Channel features hardcore wholesomeness for 16 hours every day. On Mousercise, mini-Jane Fondas are instructed to bend and stretch while imagining that they are puppets pulled by strings. The Edison Twins is a kind of scientific Hardy Boys in which 16-year-old twins discover the meaning of life and thermodynamic entropy. You and Me, Kid features a Pied Piper-like host who leads children through such activities as storytelling and "let's pretend" fantasies...
...expensive "scrubbers," devices for removing sulfur from the smoke, rather than a ban on high-sulfur fuel. Still, the legislation is being vigorously opposed by the coal industry and utilities, especially in the Midwest, where heavy industries are battling to survive. In a survey also released last week, the Edison Electric Institute, an industry group, ominously predicted that electricity rates could rise as much as 50% if the emissions-control legislation passed...
...York facilities in question are the Indian Point No. 2 and No. 3 plants at Buchanan, N.Y., which are owned by Consolidated Edison and the New York State Power Authority. Some 300,000 people live within ten miles of the plants, which overlook the Hudson River, 35 miles north of Manhattan. In Rockland County, across the river from Indian Point, authorities have refused to take part in any talks on evacuation procedures because they believe it would be impossible to get people out of the area in a crisis. Thus the NRC's action is, at least in part...
...setback but not a disaster. "It's not a new power," said Carl Goldstein, spokesman for the Atomic Industrial Forum, the trade group for the nuclear industry. "The Supreme Court just reaffirmed the states' traditional authority over economic issues." Said Russell Hawkes, spokesman for Southern California Edison Co., which, with Pacific Gas and Electric Co., brought the original lawsuit: "The decision sets an unfortunate precedent. But it has no immediate impact on our company." Neither utility has plans for new facilities in this decade; none of the state's six reactors are currently running...
...facility near Harrisburg, Pa. The plant's other reactor had broken down on March 28, 1979; neither has been operating since. Leaders of People Against Nuclear Energy (PANE), the citizens group that challenged the startup, were disappointed but vowed to continue their fight. With NRC approval, however, Metropolitan Edison Co., which operates the plant, hopes to reopen the unharmed reactor in July...